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Gracious Utterances of Sadguru Sri

Nannagaru

The Translated version of the Telugu book

‘Anugraha Vakyamulu’

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We must look very ordinary externally but

increase the strength internally. Our thought

process should be in the right direction. Even

understanding is Yoga.

- Sadguru Sri Nannagaru

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In the remembrance of Sri Nadampalli Krishna

Murthy Raju garu, a resident of the village

Gummuluru

View God residing in everyone’s Heart;

Serve that God and make your Life Blessed

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Mind

Only their mind is introverted whose

mind, breath and word become one

and travel towards the Heart.

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I and mine ie., ego and attachment, lust,

anger, misery, delusion, arrogance and

jealousy- It is only the mind which is the root

cause of all these qualities.

Do not depend upon your body or

mind or senses. Never depend upon

external things for the sake of your

happiness. Don't allow your mind to

settle upon them.

Man is born all alone. He lives according to

his destiny and dies all alone. The body

does not think that it is experiencing the

destiny. It is the mind which states that it is

experiencing the destiny.

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Guru

He is your Guru who drives you into the Heart,

the abode of God. He is your true Guru who

accomplishes your task without your desire or

thought.

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If you truly have the Grace of Guru, He will

not only point out your weaknesses but also

ensures that the path to transcend those

weaknesses flash into your mind. He even

bestows you with the power to transcend

them. He is Guru. Don't consider Guru to be a

dumb without any work. He exists as the

omniscient indweller.

The Guru watches our thoughts. He watches

our deeds. When the Guru feels that we

should not get more births, he ensures that

we get numerous sufferings or experiences in

this very birth in order to cleanse us and

bestow us with Self Knowledge.

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Your sorrow will not vanish by offering external

flowers to the Guru. Your sorrow disappears

only when the flower called mind is offered at

the feet of your Guru. You then realize that

Guru is not different from you and Guru is

yourself. It becomes your last birth.

The words of Guru prove to be useful when

you develop the inquisitiveness to attain Self

Knowledge.

You become silent once a lump of food is put

in your mouth. Similarly once Guru drags you

within, the word, mind and breath become

stabilized.

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To make the devotees search for happiness

and Bliss in the place where it is not available is

the work of a demon and not that of a Guru.

He is the true Guru who directs your mind and

senses to the abode of Peace. He is your Guru

who shows you the right direction.

Even the anger of Guru constitutes His Grace. One

should have true love and devotion towards Guru.

One should possess true faith in their Guru.

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Bhagavan Ramana

Bhagavan Ramana said: "Time, distance and

space are all delusion. The time or distance or

space or hardships or losses don't exist in the

deep sleep. All these are created by the mind."

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Bhagavan Ramana told his Mother:" When, where

and how the body is destined to stay and whatever

work the body is destined to carry on will happen

accordingly. Until and unless the work is finished,

Jiva is not carried away by God (from the body)".

Vashista is the preceptor of Rama; Sandeepa is

the preceptor of Krishna; Dattatreya is the Guru

of Parashurama but there is no preceptor for

Ramana. Through the death experience of

Bhagavan, Lord Arunchala revealed Himself to

Ramana as Self within. Therefore Lord Arunachala

became the preceptor of Bhagavan Ramana.

Whatever is bound to happen will

happen. Whatever is not bound to

happen will not happen, how much

ever one may try. This is certain.

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Self Knowledge

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When the ego is lost, the Ganges of Knowledge

existing within reaches the sahasrara. Only then

one gets the taste of Bliss.

You may feel that you cannot get rid of a

tendency when it is very strong. Until and unless

the body bound 'i' is thrown out and burnt to

ashes, you cannot attain Self Knowledge.

When you question the 'i' thought or make self-

enquiry and withdraw the 'i' thought into its

Source (ie Heart from where it arises), the 'i'

thought perishes the very moment it reaches its

source. Then the omnipresent 'I' comes into your

experience.

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Self is revealed when the delusions are destroyed

and tendencies are annihilated. None can attain

Jnana without emptying their Heart. Once your

Heart is emptied, God does not wait even for a

second to coronate you as the emperor of

eternal Peace.

Understanding the methodology (to attain Self)

is Jnana and experiencing that (the Self) which

is understood is Vignana. Thus there is a gap in

between Jnana and Vignana.

It is very difficult to bring that you have

understood into your experience. The inherent

tendencies form a great obstacle in this process.

You try to overcome these obstacles. But the

tendencies resist a lot. This ensues into a great

struggle. If you are able to sustain the struggle,

the Jnana is converted into Vignana.

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If you do not develop the discriminating faculty

to differentiate between the true and false, to

distinguish as to what to accept and what to

reject, you will be bringing in your own ravage.

You will bring about your own destruction.

Remember this: If you are 100% blissful and

peaceful at the time of death, you will not get

re-birth.

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Self exists within the Heart. Due to the strength of

your spiritual effort, due to the Holy Company,

due to the study of scriptures, due to the constant

contemplation of God, if the Self within starts

awakening, the wandering of the mind comes

down. When you throw a blade of grass into the

flood, it is washed away with a great force.

Similarly when Self within is awakened, the grass

blade called mind is withdrawn into its source

within few seconds. Then there is none left over

to make a calculation of the merit and demerit.

When you lack tolerance, the depths of your

heart will not increase. You will not attain Self

Knowledge when the depths of your heart do not

increase.

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Though the rivers keep flowing from different

directions, they merge into the sea ultimately.

Similarly even if you take birth due to destiny,

finally you have to reach the cave of Heart.

Transcending the world implies that the likes

and dislikes or the disturbances existing in the

world should not enter your mind. Only then

you have transcended the world.

It is only the thoughts of 'i' and 'mine' which

are ruining a man. Whoever may commit a sin,

it is only due to these two thoughts.

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Silence

When the mind subsides ie., when the one

that left God roars out as 'i', 'i', subsides, it

results in a great Silence. This great Silence

clears all your doubts. It is enough if you can

attain such Silence.

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Jnani

If you get rid of body consciousness, you

will remain untouched by destiny. What the

Jnani does is that he holds a sword called

dispassion and pierces the indwelling one

who is being subject to disturbance (ie ego).

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Our Ignorance breeds more pain than any of the

external disturbances. Even if you learn all the

scriptures in the world and attain scholarship, it is

not equivalent to the sight of a Jnani. It is not

equivalent to the Compassion of a Jnani.

Jnani exists as Self. When you attain the Grace of

a Jnani, you will no more require any scriptures or

spiritual efforts. Such is the glory of a Jnani.

He is wise who possesses self-control and

tolerance. Though they may lose initially but

they emerge as victorious ultimately.

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Holy Company

The Holy Company purifies the mind, refines it

and also introverts the same. The mind is

destroyed when it is introverted and withdrawn

into its source. Only then it attains Self

Knowledge.

Several people preach: "Get rid of attachment,

get rid of attachment." But one should not

sacrifice their attachment towards Mahatmas,

Maharishis and Holy people.

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Surrender

Sri Ramakrishna did not have his own design or

plan. God's wish was his wish. One cannot find 'i'

thought in Sri Ramakrishna even if you search for

the same. He was completely crooked less.

Supreme Lord said in the Gita: "Surrender unto

Me. Trust in my existence. Try to attain my

Grace. Don’t perform the forbidden acts as

prescribed by Me. Perform the acts as ordained

by Me. Escaping your prescribed duty is as much a

blunder as performing the forbidden acts."

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God

God is aware of all the secrets within you.

Though the world may not be aware of

your secret burdens within your Heart

(which resemble heavy stones that cannot

be lifted) but God is aware of the same.

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God exists in the form of time. We must make

the best use of our time. We must hear about

God and contemplate upon Him. We must

desire for their (Holy Masters) presence in

whose presence we get the desire to attain

God.

The 'i' thought emerges from Heart. It is only in

the Heart that God resides. It is only in the

Heart that Peace exists. It is only in the Heart

that Bliss exists.

It is true that God is beyond our intellect. But if

the intellect is pure, flawless, concentrated and

deserving, God is attainable by such intellect.

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The poison contained in the mouth of a snake

does not kill the snake but kills them whomever

the snake bites. Similarly the Maya contained

within God does not harm Him. But whoever

becomes victim to the Maya turn into ashes.

Since Maya is in the control of God, if we take

refuge in God, Maya clears the path towards God.

Until and unless we get the experience of being

one with God, who is our Master, our controller

and our true husband, sorrow and disturbance is

inevitable.

We are trying from our end to catch hold of God

but God is not holding us. He has left us.

There is not even a trace of His holding us. It is

because we are getting identified with external

disturbances, the craving for fame, scholarship,

money and authority.

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If you ever see God, ask Him for a boon to

bestow you with a good thinking faculty. If

you ask for the fulfillment of any desires, you

are buying hardships. Initially he will fulfill

your desire but later He will send hardships

embedded in the desire. God is a great

Magician. We don't know what we want.

Therefore we need to pray thus: "Oh! Lord,

we are living with this ego. We don't know

what is good for us. Unknowingly we are

asking you to fulfill our desires. Sometimes

whatever we consider good may lead us to

something bad in future. Oh! Father, show

us that which is good for us and thereby

liberate us."

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Some people feel: "How is it that bad people

are living happily and good people are suffering

from various hardships?" But God ensures that

whoever is bestowed with His Grace will

experience the sufferings of a hundred births in

a single birth and grants them Self Knowledge.

When you experience the world as very form

of God, the world seems to be neither bitter

nor sour. It becomes very sweet. It becomes

so sweet that you don't experience such a

bliss even in Vaikunta (the abode of Vishnu).

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Devotion

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Penance is not required for the one

who is tendency-free. Your penance or

spiritual efforts will be successful only

when you possess devotion. You must

have devotion towards the feet of God.

Constant contemplation of God and constant

attempt to attain the Grace of God will dilute

the impurities within the mind.

It is only due to our impurity that we are

unable to understand the worth of devotion.

The impurity within mind forms a great

obstacle in developing reverence for the feet

of God. It is a great delusion.

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True devotees are always pure. They

remain cool in all the situations. They keep

working but not even a trace of it can be

found. If anyone claim themselves to be

the doer of a particular task, they cannot

be called as devotee.

I am disguised as Jiva (individual soul) and

you are disguised as God. If we remove

our appearances, what exists is only One

ie Supreme Self.

Maha Vishnu incarnated as Lord Rama and

Lord Krishna only to expel the flaws within

us. It is enough if we contemplate upon

them. They will purify us and make us

flawless.

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None can reform us if our thinking faculty is

not proper. Sage Narada said: "There is no

medicine greater than chanting the name of

Rama to reduce the ups and downs in your

thinking faculty, to reform the same and to

transcend the likes and dislikes."

If Self represents the ocean, the ego represents the

bubble in that ocean. When the bubble bursts it

becomes the ocean. But if the bubble remains as

the bubble, it will not become ocean. When the

bubble called ego is merged into the ocean of Self

by Lord Arunachala, what exists is Self alone.

Oh! Arunchala, I caught hold of You. Making your

form as my only support, I am enjoying You. What

you have done is that you have merged me within

you so that I don't have a separate existence to see

you. You made me shelter less. You made me egoless.

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Selfless work

Work done without doer-ship, with your mind

fixed on God constitutes yagna (sacrifice).

This is the secret of Karma Yoga as proclaimed by

Lord Krishna in the Gita: " You must work in such

a manner that the work should progress but the 'i'

should not be visible. By the time the work is

completed, even the 'i' should vanish. When the

'i' vanishes, what is left out is Brahman only.

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Whatever might be the work that you do,

dedicate the same to God. By doing so, you will

attain God's Grace. Once we attain God's Grace,

it is equivalent to attaining everything.

Devotedly doing the work allocated to you by

God as per your destiny comprises the true

salutation to God.

If you work without any expectation, the results

will not bind you even if they are favourable.

We are bound only when there is expectation.

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Your good deeds should not enhance your

mind but should reform it. The words that we

speak should bring us the purity of mind.

One has to perform good deeds without

any expectation in order to stabilize their

meditation and abidance in Self.

Performing good deeds alone should not

constitute your goal. The good deeds should

purify your mind.

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Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita is the authority for us. The Lord

proclaimed in the Gita: "You did not get rid of

the body mindedness and name mindedness but

Self is nameless and formless. Reaching the

nameless one and formless one is equivalent to

swimming a river. The swimmer might get drowned

in the middle itself. If you cling to the form of a

God, it is equivalent to travelling on a boat. The

boat takes you ashore. It is the safest path.

The Pandavas and Kauravas exist within us. The

good qualities within us represent the Pandavas

and the bad qualities within us represent the

Kauravas. There is a constant fight in between the

two qualities within our Heart. It is only the

Kurukshetra within us.

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Spiritual Practices

The goal of all your spiritual practices is to

expel all the causes for extroversion of mind.

Help and serve others as far as possible.

Utilize the gifts of God for the sake of others.

We should go to the house of the donee and donate

them with the hesitation whether they will accept

it or not. Only then it constitutes true charity.

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The ego gets thickened if we involve ourselves in

unnecessary and unwarranted things. We must

always try to dilute the ego. Jesus said: "The

right hand should be unaware of the things done

by the left hand". Thus you should work without

any pomp and show and without any ego. Only

then you will be purified.

The child falls down several times before it learns

to walk. On falling down, it gets up and tries to

walk again. Even our spiritual efforts are similar to

this. We must keep on trying in spite of failure.

We must not leave our efforts on facing failure.

You think that you will remain happy by having

favourable external circumstances. But even if

the external circumstances are not favourable,

you will experience a greater happiness if you

have self control.

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Leaving the body unto its destiny, try to utilize

your entire mind and power to awaken to the

state of Peace and Bliss. Don't concentrate

upon vain thoughts, vain desires and vain

actions. Try to attain the Eternal Bliss.

You cannot introvert even an inch without

practice, self study, holy company and the

Grace of Guru. You try to meditate for several

hours and try to introvert. Only then you will

understand the hardship involved in the path

of introversion.

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When our intentions are different from our

words, we are not deceiving others but we

are deceiving ourselves.

When the body is very much alive, even

before the body becomes a corpse, reduce

the force of the desire, anger and fear. We

are told not to fear anything because fear

forms an obstacle in the experience of Bliss.

If the sight of someone is making you angry,

it implies that you possess hatred. If you

become fond of someone on their mere

sight, it implies that you possess desire. Both

the hatred as well as desire binds you. The

force of desire and anger is very great. They

destroy your peace.

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Even your followers may become an obstacle in

your spiritual progress. Get rid of such people.

The tendencies have been accompanying you

since thousands of years. Penance is required to

transcend them.

Vittam implies money and vruttam implies

character and virtue. Do not attain vittam

without possessing vruttam ie earn

righteously.

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The scriptures said: "Relatives are related to

body and friends & foes are related to mind."

Chanakya said: "Your well-wisher may stay at

any place. He is only your relative and he is

only your friend." -Sadguru Sri Nannagaru